After having lived here for many years, I’ve come to understand why very few cities are as fabulous as the City of Light, and over the centuries, many, including artists, writers, actors and entrepreneurs have tried to capture its essence through the power of word.

Below are a mere handful of those beautiful quotes about Paris that may really make you want to pack and move here like, right now.

Et oui, Paris!

1. “Every man has two countries, his own and France” - Thomas Jefferson

3. “I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city… It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see”. - Katherine Mansfield

4. “Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies in you something that is always hungry in America” - Ernest Hemingway

5. “ To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.” - Victor Hugo

6. “ Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that…I love Paris.” –– Ella Fitzgerald

7. “ The Chief danger of Paris is that it’s such a strong stimulant” - T.S Eliot

11. “People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain… or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” - Roman Payne

12. “I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.” - Josephine Baker

13. “...France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older – intelligence and good manners. “ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

14. “Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.” - Samantha Schutz

15. “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” - Honoré de Balzac

16. “One Day I'm going to Live in Paris” - Unknown

17. "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast" - ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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